Bolivian President Luis Arce reaffirmed the nation's commitment to the legal uses of coca leaf, claiming that 'it is not cocaine.' During the National Acullico Day event in La Paz on January 11 ...

Route 36 in La Paz, Bolivia, is renowned for being the world’s only cocaine bar. But what is it really like to spend an evening there? One woman reports on an eye ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

We asked. If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab.

A former Bolivian beauty queen was arrested after being allegedly caught transporting a $2.3 million shipment of cocaine in Argentina. Jade Callaú, 21, and her boyfriend pilot, Brazilian national ...

Bolivia is one of the top cultivators of coca plants – from which cocaine is derived – along with Peru and Colombia. The plants are then usually exported to Colombia, where roughly two thirds ...

Morales signed a law which officially recognizes as legal 22,000 hectares of coca crops, raising the limit of 12,000 hectares fixed in the previous law. Bolivia passed a controversial measure on ...

The PCC first formed an alliance with Bolivian cocaine traffickers in Santa Cruz, which they called “Narcosur.” The PCC has a separate relationship with Venezuela's Tren de Aragua, which is ...

Within this trio, Bolivia—second to Peru as a producer of coca leaf and to Colombia as a producer of refined cocaine—has been the largest recipient of U.S. counternarcotics aid. The impact of ...

TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab.

She says she is succeeding. Argentina has grown in importance as a transit hub for cocaine as production from Peru and Bolivia has flowed down key waterways and out through river ports such as ...